Dalhousie University is one of the latest post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia to announce the majority of their classes will be moving online until 2021.
A memo was sent to students on Wednesday, stating there won’t be any in-person, on-campus courses before January 2021. The decision has prompted international student Siam Ashraful to create an online petition, asking the university to reduce tuition fees.
She said the tuition is too high, particularly for international students who don’t qualify for the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CERB) grant and already pay significantly higher tuition than domestic students. “Since we’re paying like almost three times the tuition fees compared to Canadians, there should be an appropriate